13.147. Sarcophagus of [...] and his wife [...] daughter of Menandros
- Description:
- White marble garland sarcophagus W. 2.23 × H. 1.01 × D. 1.09. For description see Isik 99.
- Text:
- Inscribed along the upper edge (l.1) and in the tabella and its upper and lower mouldings. The text must have begun on the lid.
- Letters:
- Neat examples of the second-to-fourth-century style, 0.0225-0.0275. Ligatured ΜΗ (l.17), ΜΗΝ (l.16), ΝΤ (l.13), ΤΗ (ll.3, 12, 13). Star for denarius. Unconventional spellings in ll.1, 4, 9, 11.
- Date:
- Perhaps late second to first half of the third century (lettering, spelling).
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east: in a field south of the Eymir-Tabae road, with 13.112, 13.153 (= MAMA 576, 586)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Kubitschek (KV.3, Abklatsch 110); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Isik).
- Bibliography:
- Published from the MAMA records, with consultation also of Kubitschek's papers, J.M.R.Cormack, MAMA 8. 553, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 547 ; Reynolds and Isik 99, with photograph.
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; notebooks; MAMA squeeze;Isik photograph. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 τοῦ Φοίβου φύσι δὲ Μενάνδρου β τοῦ Ἀγαθόποδος Μα[·· c. 10 ··] καὶ τὰ ἐξ αὐ-
- 2τῶν [γεγόμενα τέκν]α ἕτερος
- 3 δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐν τῇ σορῷ ταφή-
- 4σετε ἐπὶ ὁ παρὰ ταῦτά
- 5 τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀ-
- 6σεβὴ̣ς̣ [καὶ ἐ]π̣ά̣ρ̣ατος
- 7κα̣ὶ̣ τ̣υ̣μ̣β̣ω̣ρύχος καὶ
- 8 προσαποτεισάτω εἰς
- 9 τὸ εἱερώτατον ταμεῖ-
- 10ον (δηνάρια) τρισχίλια ὧν τὸ
- 11 τρίτον ἔσσθω τοῦ ἐκ-
- 12δικήσαντος ταύτης
- 13 τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγρα-
- 14φον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ
- 15 χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στε-
- 16φανηφόρου τ̣ὸ̣ ια´ Ἀτταλίδος
- 17 τῆς bird Μενεκράτους μηνὸς genius
- 18 scroll πέμπτου leaf
- 1ΤΟΥΦΟΙΒΟΥΦΥΣΙΔΕΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΒΤΟΥΑΓΑΘΟΠΟΔΟΣΜΑ[··········]ΚΑΙΤΑΕΞΑΥ
- 2ΤΩΝ[············]ΑΕΤΕΡΟΣ
- 3ΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΝΤΗΣΟΡΩΤΑΦΗ
- 4ΣΕΤΕΕΠΙΟΠΑΡΑΤΑΥΤΑ
- 5ΤΙΠΟΙΗΣΑΣΕΣΤΩΑ
- 6ΣΕΒ··[····]···ΑΤΟΣ
- 7Κ·······ΡΥΧΟΣΚΑΙ
- 8ΠΡΟΣΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΑΤΩΕΙΣ
- 9ΤΟΕΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΟΝΤΑΜΕΙ
- 10ΟΝ denarius ΤΡΙΣΧΙΛΙΑΩΝΤΟ
- 11ΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΣΘΩΤΟΥΕΚ
- 12ΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΤΑΥΤΗΣ
- 13ΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΝΤΙΓΡΑ
- 14ΦΟΝΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΕΙΣΤΟ
- 15ΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕ
- 16ΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥ··ΙΑΑΤΤΑΛΙΔΟΣ
- 17ΤΗΣ bird ΜΕΝΕΚΡΑΤΟΥΣΜΗΝΟΣ genius
- 18 scroll ΠΕΜΠΤΟΥ leaf
Translation:
[? The sarcophagus belongs to name and his wife, adoptive daughter of name, son] of Phoibos, natural daughter of Menandros, second of the name after Agathopous Ma[ ..c. 10 ..] and their surviving children. No one else shall bury in the sarcophagus since whoever has acted contrary to this is to be considered sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-breaker, and furthermore is to pay to the sacred treasury (at Rome) 3000 denarii, of which one third is to belong to the prosecutor. A copy of this inscribed text was deposited in the civic archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Attalis, daughter of Menekrates, fifth month.
Commentary:
αὐτῶν in ll.1-2 shows that a man and wife jointly owned the sarcophagus; the length of her genealogy might suggest a family of high social status, but does not prove it (see Introduction); too little survives of the names to show whether the family had Roman citizenship. For the stephanephoros see no. 84 (her sixteenth tenure).
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook V, 3
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